throwusawayus

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by throwusawayus 5y ago
The linked blog post literally just says "reads". The word "rows" does not appear in the blog post! You have to click through, yes it's clear once you do, but i'd say it's a valid complaint about the blog
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
Disagree, GP's expectations are perfectly reasonable Their pricing page starts out by saying "Transparent pricing you can understand"! I shouldn't have to read a several thousand word FAQ, and then still come away wonder
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
> RDS hosts sitting around when you have no traffic, costing you huge sums for a service that is basically `apt-get install mysql-server` on top of EC2. rds gives you automatic backups, automatic failover with DNS, easy upgrades, IAM aut
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
You're mixing up I/O-based pricing with rows-based pricing. Aurora is priced based on I/O operations, with 16KB pages: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/ If you're doing a range scan
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
I came to the same conclusion. At my job I learned that one of the important disclosures in his leaked documents wasn't true, it simply did not exist and there was no possible way for it to exist, pretty conclusively*. While this doesn
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
I fully agree with GP, my experiences with Chase have been quite poor even in the NYC region. Ahead of buying a home in ~2015, I was holding a lot of cash, and Chase upgraded me to Chase Private Client. Seemed good at the time, perks like f
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
Clearly I didn't explain my point very well. I'm responding specifically to the author's throwing shade on big tech's focus on profits. He mentions this five times : * "It was all about one thing… MONEY!" * &q
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
I wasn't implying they're big tech, or tech at all. I'm saying it's hypocritical because BoA is a big company that just wants to make money, and sometimes does horrible things [1][2]. Yet the author lobs profanities at t
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
> seems a wee bit hypocritical Also the fact the author appears to work for Bank of America... hard to take seriously his complaints about big tech just wanting to make money, in light of that.
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
Among other blatantly offensive things, he directly said "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself." Certainly sounds to me like he's attributing these actions
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
I'm Jewish, and I personally found the post to be offensive and anti-semitic. Israel is not my "homeland". I've never been to Israel, let alone lived there. My parents have never been to Israel. You'd have to go bac
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
> which has since been removed Literally within the past day, along with the rest of his entire blog. This post was still online yesterday ! I also don't see any form of public acknowledgement or apology anywhere on his site or twi
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by throwusawayus 5y ago
Parents can be profoundly weird about this sort of thing. I've had a couple meaningful equity events -- not as large as OP's but same order of magnitude in combination -- and have discussed this with my parents several times over
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by throwusawayus 10y ago
A couple of months ago, in a public chatroom for DBAs, one of GitLab's engineering leads made some very insulting comments about Facebook engineers & eng practices. Pretty ironic. I want to feel bad for GibLab, but it's really
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by throwusawayus 10y ago
I can't verify this, but I was told that the lead investor is Peter Thiel / Founders Fund. Seems believable, since it's consistent with his investment thesis.